Monthly Archives: March 2014

As we head into autumn, Makin’ Moves continue to keep you warm serving up more soulful heat with our next release from Nina Provencal ‘Soul Saviour’. Nina makes a welcome return to the label following her ‘Breakdown’ release, which she featured on earlier this year with producers Solution Soul. Nina’s sublime soulful vocals and songwriting are creating a stir on the house scene, with further tracks to be released later this year. When speaking with Nina about what’s in store for 2014 she said, “ I really would like to continue to make quality house music, and keep pushing my boundaries, house is so versatile and transcending, I hope to continue working with producers and labels all over the world”

‘Soul Saviour’ originally featured on Nina’s 2004, self written album ‘Good Stuff’ and our good friend in New Jersey Jihad Muhammad had always liked the track and wanted to re-produce it for the house crowd. Having a history of creating fantastic productions for his own label, Movement Soul and numerous other remixes we put Jihad to work with the original vocal and the results were amazing that all parties agreed that the track needed to be released.

Jihad has introduced a new energy to the track with his beats and combined with Nina’s subtle soulful vocals its worked on every dance floor we have played on this summer from London to New York, Japan and back.

DJ Fudge, also a close friend and one of the hot producers right now currently residing in Hong Kong gives us 3 soulful mixes all great alternatives from the original.

Exclusive promos will be available via www.traxsource.com from 29th October. Full release 1st December 2013.

Thanks to everyone that made it out to out last event, was a great night and our guest Jihad Muhammad from New Jersey dropped an amazing set! We should have the recorded live sets up on our Soundcloud page shortly for you to listen back to if you missed the event so look out for those.

It was great to hear so much positive feedback about the venue from so many of you last weekend so we will be returning to the upstairs of The Garage in Highbury on Saturday 19th April for our next London event.

Joining residents Matt L-S and Jamesey will be Eddie Boi from 4 to the Floor. Eddie was born in South Africa but moved to London a few years ago and loves the city. He can often be found dj’ing at various clubs and nights such as ‘Free Your Soul’ at Madame Jojos and is currently working on a hot new EP, we look forward to welcoming him to Makin’ Moves!

The event is FREE for the first hour so much your get there early people!

Gianluca Pighi is deep. The Italian DJ/Producer is dedicated to music further than a hobby or even a career. The lifetime obsession Gianluca has to finding the perfect beat is only comparable to true love. He grew up on Public Enemy, The Temptations, Deodato and Barry White and by 14 he was mixing on pirate radio and by 17 he was getting paid to play music at parties.

Massimo Paramour is a musical prodigy. After studying music formally for many years, Massimo dove into the club scene of Italy, carving out a space for himself as a consistent professional. During a trip to New York in the early 2000’s, he met Ahmad Larnes and convinced the vocalist to travel to Italy for work. There they met with Gianluca and had immediate musical chemistry. This was how the three magic pieces came together for the magical single, “The Well”–Gianluca’s technical expertise, Massimo’s musicianship and Ahmad Larnes’ voice.

Makin’ Moves is proud to present this gem, appropriate for clubs and intimate listening. Deep and brilliant, “The Well” packs a natural, continuous energy. Ahmad’s voice adds light to the driving drums and heavenly synthesizer, carrying the listener on a voyage. The centerpiece lyric of the track, “my love is deep just like the well,” is a simple metaphor that carries power. The love of another, the love of music, the love of artistry, true love goes deep to replenish the soul.

Also featured in the package are some hot remixes from BKNY’s Tyrone ‘Mixologist’ Francis from New York taking things more deeper and ready to bring you up at 6am as the sun comes up!

Traxsource promo available from next Tuesday 25th March 2014

Produced arranged and mixed by Gianluca Pighi and Massimo Paramour @ blackpiggy Studio

Makin’ Moves are back with our second London event of the year returning to the upstairs of the Garage in Highbury the scene of our last event where we hosted the Juste Debout after party. The venue is the perfect intimate loft style space with a great wooden dance floor that the dancers really appreciate!

Residents Jamesey and Matt are fresh back from their trip to New York still on a high and promise to bring their unique energy to the floor. For this event we welcome our close friend and artist on our label Jihad Muhammad from New Jersey as our guest.

Bang The Drum Party was established in 2009 by DJ/Producer Jihad Muhammad in Newark, NJ. Bang The Drum (BTD) has hosted some of the best DJ’s and Artists in the Underground Dance Scene. The purpose of the party is to promote the Global Soul Movement. Jihad defines Global soul as ” Soulful music…House, Funk, Disco, Afrobeat… any music that touches the soul of all people….of all races. That to me makes it Global “.

You can catch Jihad live each & every 3rd Saturday @ The Coffee Cave in Downtown Newark. You can also catch him on the net each & every Tuesday on Buttersoulcafe.com from 6-8pm and we look forward to welcoming him back to London! Limited £8 early bird tickets are available from RA, more on the door.